In the obit in the NY times it mentioned something I had forgotten that the men that raised the flag in real life recreated the act in the classic John Wayne movie, "The Sands of Iwa Jima"
I have a distant connection with Ira Hayes, the Pima indian who was one of the raisers of the flag - I met Peter LaFarge in 1960 - who wrote "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" when I was married to his cousin. The song is sometimes eroneously credited to Kris Kristofesen (I think I just butchered that spelling) Like Ira Hayes, Peter's drinking probably killed him. The Times obit didn't mention anything about the money Rosenthal didn't or did get. ann Bob Sullivan wrote: > > John, > > A nice article today quoted him as saying it was spontaneous, "...just > swung the camera over in time to catch the shot." And citing the > confusion about it as being spontaneous or staged as partly his fault. > He didn't see the film he took until some two weeks later and thought > people were refering to a later photo of grinning Marines. The > obituary pointed out that the movie camera man he was standing next to > had the exact same shot on motion picture film. (He was killed a few > days later.) > > ...Second US flag raised on Mt. Surabatchi that day (at least). The > US commander thought the first flag was not big enough to be seen by > those fighting below. This was one of the latest and most deadly > encounters in the Pacific campaign. We lost 6,000+ Marines and the > Japanese Defense Force lost 20,000+. Dark times. > > Regards, Bob S. > > On 8/21/06, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Joe Rosenthal, probably best-known for his photograph of > > (a recreation of) US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima > > died yesterday. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
